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Female Empowerment in Academia
Female Empowerment in Academia is a self-paced online course for academic employees and PhD students. This interdisciplinary course addresses gender inequality in academia.
Female Empowerment in Academia
Description of the course
The interdisciplinary course addresses gender inequality in academia. Participants interested in a better understanding of gender relations in their working environment will gain awareness of core problems hindering gender equality in academia and get some practical tips on how to deal with them.
The course is open from February 20, 2025, until May 15, 2025. You can already enroll in this course using the "female-empower-2025" self-enrolment key.
Learning objectives
Are you committed to addressing gender inequality and creating a more inclusive academic environment? The asynchronous self-paced online training course Female Empowerment in Academia is designed for academic staff and PhD Candidates of all genders who want to gain awareness of core problems hindering gender equality in academia and provides some practical tips on how to deal with them.
Participants explore key topics like structural inequalities, gender-based violence in academia, methodologies for gender-sensitive research, and understand gender beyond ticking the project policy boxes to make a meaningful impact in your field.
At the end of the training, participants will better understand the gender structure embedded in the academia and research environment, learn to be more sensitive and caring towards endangered groups, discover the benefits of gender equality based on good practices from the international university community, and develop competencies especially for the empowerment of women in academia.
Details of the learning scenario
It is an asynchronous self-paced online training course. It takes approximately 25 working hours to follow all training materials and complete the course. The Female Empowerment in Academia training is based on a series of video presentations with some additional online activities. The training is divided into three thematic modules:
- structural inequalities
- gender-based violence in academia
- gender methodologies
Each module consists of several subtopics (video presentations). Participants take their own path at their chosen speed through the recommended order of topical videos. They learn about the topics and international team of the training instructors (experts) in the detailed course books. The course is wrapped up by filling in the evaluation questionnaire. Participants are issued a course certificate upon completion.
The training is now open for the pilot run. Please help us tune up the final release of the training by filling in an extra feedback form detailing your path through the course.
There are no prerequisites for this course.
The training is designed to fit academics and researchers from all career stages across a variety of disciplines. It may be especially beneficial for interested and open-minded university staff and early career researchers and is recommended for Ph.D. students across scientific disciplines and schools.
Password for self-enrolment: female-empower-2025
| Code | FemEmp |
| ECTS | |
| Language/s | English |
| Level | B2 |
| Capacity | |
| Teacher | Teacher/Mentor: Šmídová, Iva |
| Starting Semester | Both |
| Mode | Asynchronous |
| Platform | EDUC Moodle |